Approved Euthanasia Methods for Small Lab Animals: Tools and Techniques

[scar504]

That's how i want to go.

[SuperSmilingSmiley]

Amateurs

[annbavage]

Who decided that man was superior to the Animal Kingdom???

[tobinator1317]

@annbavage Evolution and Samuel Colt

[SmokeAlexOut]

@annbavage Nature did that's why we can kill ever other animal on whim.

[rocklobster665]

aww i know its for medical purposes but still :( there not jews there rats thats a few steps ahead of a jew on the food chain

[likitty20]

why does this have alot of dislikes? who ever disliked this needs to be in that chamber

[etocadet]

you do realise pre frozen chickens are your best option, I mean 99% of all male chickens are gassed at birth so there is a big supply

[IloveBEAUTYandMum]

this is sick this is very disstressing to all these animals

[91tonymontana]

what is he doing with the rat`s necks??? for what purposes?

[KaiToraInu]

All of these methods are extremely inhumane! The only proper way to euthanize a rat is by first administering anesthesia and only then preforming the final injection into the heart or abdomen. The methods displayed here cause stress and pain. Please, if you need your small animal euthanized, appeal to a vet with experience in the species, and speak with others who have witnessed the procedures on their own animals.

[dale3858]

I don't know the right way to kill an animal, but this is NOT right either. Also, putting live ones in on top of dead ones is TORTURE. You are SICK, what is wrong with you people?

[topsy420]

@hazyeyes44 Hahaha, chump

[majorferret]

you call this humane?first of all in the first gassing,you did not keep it on long enough,the little rat in the front was still gasping for air,second,you put the other rats in the same container as the first ones as they lay dying.i dont see anything 'humane'about this shit!how the hell do you know the animal is not suffering?i could take out a human easier than i could an animal.people make me puke!!!

[tightsongs]

@hazyeyes44 you think this is bad for the mouse... i have a ball python that needs mice to eat is it not cruel to let my snake die? dont watch the video.

[Mickeyshyloh]

@hazyeyes44 Actually, this is one of the most Humane ways that I see to do this. Also, lab rats were breeded, over a large period of time, generation after generation, simply for the purpose of experimenting. Even though there may be no reason for them to die, Im sure the purpose is so that other animals dont have to suffer in the future. (I.E. these people are in training...)

[kellzoorz]

The proper method of CO2 anesthesia involves replacing the air in the container with CO2 very slowly, not quickly, as you have done. The proper method puts the animals to sleep slowly - what you have done makes the uncomfortable and stress out as they die. Also, euthanizing many animals in one container (when they don't normally live that way) is generally considered to be stressful and inhumane. Please stop giving other animal researchers a bad image by publicizing your poor technique.

[Elenkhos]

You should have released the gas slower to render them unconscious instead of releasing it so fast, mass quantities of c02 burns the lungs and eyes when released too quickly.

[weatherboi]

Aw, rats!

[iMPRESSi0Ns]

They looked healthy to me... What the hell?? :(

[RoseySnakes]

@iMPRESSi0Ns labs euthanize animals for different reasons. sometimes the reasons could be a failed expriment, sickness, injuries, or the ending of an experiment. They appeared healthy because they probably were. However they might have have the incorrect genes or maybe sickness that we can't tell here.

[iMPRESSi0Ns]

@RoseySnakes Oh my fucking god, incorrect genes. That's totally a reason to fucking murder something.

[RoseySnakes]

@iMPRESSi0Ns sure, then next time you get sick, make sure you don't take any medicine, don't receive any surgical procedures, and don't even think about getting vaccines. Most of the medical advancements in humans have gone through experiments in animal models first before being done in humans. You better be vegan then, because eating and wearing animal products are apparently F-ing better reasons than medical advancements to murder something for most people.

[rajinder2k4]

@RoseySnakes I think what they were trying to say is that people who take using medicines for granted should not be avert to being in a euthanizing program themselves (for the benefit of mankind) and also there are many smart people in this world who could come up with alternate methods.

[DerSchnurrbart]

It was kind of weird how they kept piling them up in there w/o taking out the dead ones but whatever works I guess.

[slothmega]

It is horrible, MsCakeRat, but that wasn't an experiment, the reason they do that is to kill them when the experiment they were used in is finished. They weren't doing it to see if it would work.... I hate it....

[MuslimGhost]

Are you some kind of a moron? You put more rats in with the dead ones and think they arent going to experience any stress? Do it at one go with an airtight bag over their cage or something.

[georgetchryn2]

this isn't humane. you can't just pile up the rats on top of dead ones. they release pheremones that cause distress. not to mention the sudden exposure to high concentrations of CO2 forms carbonic acid in their lungs that tortures them before they go unconscoius. You're supposed to slowly build up the CO2 so that they are unconscious before the acid forms...

[mycrimsonregrets]

@georgetchryn2 i am so happy to see an intelligent reply on this. you are correct on the carbonic acid but i did not know about the pheromones. also instead of drifting off to sleep, it would feel like they can't breath.

[tutanga14]

this is kinda sick... why would you just kill them?

[carolbgaspar]

thanks. really helpful. we are working on mice for our research right now but we are a bit low on budget. so we need to make modifications on "pre-killing". any suggestions on what we can substitute with a CO2 chamber?

[angelyn1985]

there are many reasons why scientists use small animals for experiments.. usually for the greater good, and they are undeniably necessary, unfortunately.

[MsCakerat]

Why do you need to do that to healthy innocent domestic rats?! You could have accomplished the same thing with sick/dying rats. And why so damn many? Fuck you.

[josephdolderer]

thats how they did the mexicans

[ckarenortiz]

horrible you torture poor lottle animals

[mbfla]

Thank you for the citation to the reference: the context suggested the U of IA - to whom I was about to make a charitable, tax-wise gift! Glad to know this was incorporated by reference...

many thanks for the prompt reply!

[mbfla]

Question: What was the reason the University of Iowa was euthanizing these mammals? Many people have these same genera and spp. as pets. They appeared healthy on exam/view...

??? If this is commonplace at U of IA, maybe we should re-think our annual giving and/or write to the Office of Advancement, particularly the Annual Fund director.

[h0ll0wm9n]

@mbfla: For the record, this was NOT conducted at U of IA (it was another U.S. univ.). Rather, IA was the best source I could find for the reference text in this clip.

[nervousneuron]

@mbfla

I will answer that for you and it's not nice. Animals are humanely killed at the end of an experiment and yes, they are still healthy at the end. In this case, it's not called euthanasia, which implies the animal was suffering and that's why it was killed. It is on ethics applications, where it must be explained how the animals will die.

This may not be the case for every university, but it is for the ones I know of here in Aus.

[MrRexrules]

disgusting tortering little incent animals

[doonbugie]

neat.